Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being uttered, pronounced, or expressed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being uttered.

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  • adjective Capable of being expressed in words, especially audibly.

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  • adjective capable of being uttered in words or sentences

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Examples

  • He could picture but one way of destroying this terrible loneliness, the attainment of a spiritual -- a divine -- state of love, a condition to which he would give no name utterable by human lips, lest it be profaned, but for which his whole being yearned.

    Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life 1883

  • He could picture but one way of destroying this terrible loneliness, the attainment of a spiritual -- a divine -- state of love, a condition to which he would give no name utterable by human lips, lest it be profaned, but for which his whole being yearned.

    Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871

  • In his vocabulary was no word for “crocodile”; yet in his thought, as potent as any utterable word, was an image of dreadful import — an image of a log awash that was not a log and that was alive, that could swim upon the surface, under the surface, and haul out across the dry land, that was huge-toothed, mighty-mawed, and certain death to a swimming dog.

    CHAPTER XX 2010

  • Among all the French words my daughter has taught me, rosace may be the least useful in speech (not like the ever-groovy, ever-utterable chiche* that she taught me a while back) but I can say that I am now seeing rosace patterns everywhere.

    rosace - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • Among all the French words my daughter has taught me, rosace may be the least useful in speech (not like the ever-groovy, ever-utterable chiche* that she taught me a while back) but I can say that I am now seeing rosace patterns everywhere.

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • Among all the French words my daughter has taught me, rosace may be the least useful in speech (not like the ever-groovy, ever-utterable chiche* that she taught me a while back) but I can say that I am now seeing rosace patterns everywhere.

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • But the French use it, and that means that it is utterable now—tout de suite—illico!

    Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007

  • It became clear fairly quickly that the trees wouldn't be things of un-utterable joy, though.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Annemarie 2007

  • It became clear fairly quickly that the trees wouldn't be things of un-utterable joy, though.

    An Ode to an Apple Tree Annemarie 2007

  • Lilli Mokganyetsi's story conveyed profound meanings that went beyond the immediate, beyond the apparent, beyond the chronological, beyond the coherent or the utterable.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

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